Axis History Forum

This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjerne’s Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day.
Founded in 1999.

during the Coronavirus crysis we want to continue to provide you with new and unseen footage from our Archives and do our part to make people stay at home!!

We just uploaded our RAW footage of Platterhof (Hotel General Walker) on Obersalzberg today.
It shows the last state of Platterhof in 2001, days before it got destroyed by the bavarain government. It is RAW Unedited material! We plan to create a full fledged documentary about this topic at some point in the future. Stay tuned for that!

Great footage, friends! I visited the deserted General Walker Hotel in the spring of 1999. You were fortunate enough to gain access inside the buildings; I only strolled the property on the outside...everything was locked up tight when I was there.

Likely in the offices/houses of the boss and foremen of the firm that tore the hotel down, or perhaps others who were involved in the planning for the demolition. It was acknowledged at the time that a lot of plundering went on then.

All the original Kehlsteinhaus furniture was stored in the Platterhof...

And where is it all now?

I can only imagine it either was removed by the Bavarian authorities to a place of storage or was taken by the developers and workers at the time of destruction.
I was made aware of the furniture by the father of a girl who owned the small restaurant near the old SS houses...he was previously manager of the Platterhof during its occupation by the US.
He was an accomplished ski instructor and ehen I spoke with him ages ago didn't have much if any interest in the preservation of the chairs....although he posess two white garden chairs that he kept on his veranda of the same type Hitler used on the Berghof terrace. He said he used to have three but one broke and he threw it away! This was back in 99.

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Just saw that......yes....indeed Geoff.<br/>
I recall being in Berlin at the time they were renovating Görings Air Ministry.<br/>
From a second floor window they THREW out the historic writing table that belonged to Görings one time comrade General Der Flieger Ernst Udet (who committed suicide) Sending it smashing to the ground....I managed to keep two of the iconic wing shaped door handles that every office there had...and a door plate and some paperwork still from that time. But nothing was saved as far as I know from that imposing structure.

Yes, for sure ... I miss them both at the Holzkäfer, and also my favorite waitress Karla, who doesn't work there anymore.
He told me several interesting things during a couple talks at the restaurant, and also one time when several of us were standing around outside the kitchen door of the Türken.

Yes, for sure ... I miss them both at the Holzkäfer, and also my favorite waitress Karla, who doesn't work there anymore.
He told me several interesting things during a couple talks at the restaurant, and also one time when several of us were standing around outside the kitchen door of the Türken.